Your Next Productivity Hack is Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping is a well known approach for drawing information in diagrams instead of writing it in sentences or making numbered lists. A Mind Map always uses the same basic format of a tree, with...
Chocolate CAN Make You Smarter
You heard it right, recent studies have shown eating chocolate regularly can improve brain function, and make you smarter. If you’re anything like me, this is welcome news! The benefits of chocolate are nothing new and...
6 Different Ways to Detoxify Your Body
Every day we dump toxins into our bodies through food, alcohol, tobacco and stress. Modern lifestyles provide little respite for our body and diminishes its ability to process and cleanse itself from harmful toxins. Our immune system,...
Caffeine Fasting: Reset Your Tolerance
Do you struggle to get through the day without one or more cups of coffee? You’re not alone, the FDA reported that 80% of Americans drink coffee every day, and the per capita caffeine consumption...
Nootropics in the News: Issue 1
We like to think that Cognitive Enhancers (also known as Nootropics) are having a bit of a moment. Actually, a moment is probably an understatement given the perfect storm of biohacking meets quantified-self that is starting to brew....
Is Digital Detoxing a Social Fad or Modern Necessity?
I’ve recently come across a company which runs summer camps for adults. Not entirely a new concept, except at these particular camps there is a complete void of digital. No iPhones, no Playstations, no Macbooks,...
Focus Hacks: When Nothing Else Cuts It
When you need to perform you have to perform, and that usually means you need to focus. From experience I’ve personally found one of the keys to success is being able to focus (and get...
The Flow: How We Get In The Zone
I sometimes wonder how the top athletes and sportspeople do what they do with such precision, accuracy, power and focus. An archer nailing the centre of a target, a table tennis player hitting a 30...
Why Mastering Mindfulness Could Make Your Career
What do Walt Disney, General Mills and Google have in common? All have recognised that in the fast paced, technology driven world of today, an investment into slowing their staff down could actually speed them...